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UNrrEn STATES l CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DISTILLING PURE ALCOHOLC SPIRITS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,654, dated October 14, 1873; application filed I July 17,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN ANDER- SEN, of Brooklyn, in the coimty of Kings and State-of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Distilling Alcoholic Liquids; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the acccompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which drawingi y Figure l represents a plan or top view of the apparatus which I use in carrying out my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side-view of the same in the direction of arrow l, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same in the direction of arrow 2, Fig. l.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in the arrangement of a double-acting pump, the suction-pipe of which connects with a cistern in which collects the "vapors or liquids escaping from the mash-tun or mash-tuus, while the deliverypipe of said pump connects with a vessel that is iilled with animal or vegetable coal, and communicates with an alcoholic still in such a manner that, by the action of the pump, the yaporization of the mash is facilitated, and that the liquids resulting from the condensation of the vapors which escape from the mash- 'tlm are brought in intimate contact with a quantity of` animal or vegetable coal, and thereby said liquids are freed from noxious impurities before they pass into the alcoholstill. f

In the drawing, the letters A A1 A2 designate three mash-tuus, which are arranged one' above the other, and which communicate with each other by means of goose-necks B B. The goose-neck B', which rises from the mashtun A1 connects with a worm, C, situated in the interior of the tun A2, and from the bottom end of this worm extends a pipe, I), which passes through coolers E and communicates, by means of the tail-pipe F, with a cistern, G. H is a double-acting pump, the suctionpipe I of which extends down into the cistern G close to its bottom, while the delivery-pipe J of said pump commimicates with a vessel,

K, which it enters near its top. This vessel is filled with animal or vegetable coal, and from its .bottom extends a pipe, L, which leads into a cistern, M. From the bottom of this cistern emanates a pipe, N, which. leads intoy The rectified spirit escapes from the condenser through the lower tail-pipe U.

In working my apparatus Icharge the mashtuns A A1 A2 in the usualmanner, and then I heat the contents of the flrsumaslltun"by-ad/W' hrs/escaping from this A yb.;

mitting steam. The vap mash-tun pass into the second mash-tun A1, so as to heat the mash therein, and the vapors escaping from the secondmash-tun pass up through the goose-neck B', and then down through the coil G in the tun A2, the heat which radiates from this coil serving to heat the contents of said tun. On leaving the coil C the vapors pass through the coolers E* to the cistern G, where they collect in a liquid state.

By the action of the pump H the liquid from the cistern G is forced through the coal contained in the vessel K, and by these means the atmosphere in the cistern G is rarefied,

and the vaporization of the mash isfacilitated.

At the same time the liquid which is forced through the carbon-vessel K is freed from its noxious constituents, and it collects in the cistern M in a comparatively pure state, so that when the same enters the still O vand is subjected to the rectifying process it yields a pure and clear spirit.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The arrangement of a double acting pump, H, in combination with a set of mashtuns with a receiving-cistern, G, a carbon-vessel, K, and a rectifying-still, O, all constructed and operating substantially in the manner herein shown and described.

2. The within-described process of distilling alcoholic liquids by forcing the products resulting from the vaporization of mash through a vessel containing carbon previous to introducing said liquid into the rectifying-still, as set forth.

- CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Witnesses:

W. HAUFF,

E. F. KnsTENHUBER. 

